Unchurched

People would have to be in a hypnotic state to believe that Christ wanted them to pray at a modern Church building but if they actually need anything they should go to "men who exercise authority one over the other"?
Jesus was so clear that His disciples were instructed to not be that way.
While the Testaments are also clear that you may legally apply for a multitude of benefits through a socialist state, but not without consequences. Dependence upon "legal charity" will make you "merchandise", "curse children" and bring again the captivity of Egypt. This is undoubtedly why both the Testaments tells us not to covet.
Those gifts, gratuities, and benefits are the wages of unrighteousness which destroy liberty and degenerate the people into perfect savages because they are the dainties and deceitful meats of rulers provided through the covetous practices of the world which "makes the word of God to none effect".
But the modern Christian does that every day to get free schooling for their children, and social security for their parents and a myriad of other public benefits imagining they are not "workers of iniquity".
How is that the daily ministration of the early Church, the table of the LORD which is not a snare? How is fhat seeking the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness? The Christian conflict with Rome was with the welfare system of the Imperial Cult of Rome and the public religion of the world and others like Herod and the Pharisees which was again "making the word of God to none effect".
We are to live by faith, hope, and charity which is love according to The Way of Christ and not the force, fear, and fealty which was the the ways of the world.
If Modern Christians, Jews, and Muslims would repent and seek to see the truth of their own history they could recover from the strong delusion of public religion. They think they understand the teachings in the Bible but have been doing the opposite of what doctrine of Jesus, Moses, and Abraham were telling their followers to do for over a century

Recording #1 & 2
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Recording #3
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"Unchurched" as an adjective is defined as "not belonging to or connected with a church". When concerning religious participation, it refers specifically to people who do not attend worship services. A worship services or "church service" or sometimes called a "service of worship" is a formal group or communal gathering to perform a wide variety of what is often called "worship" in some ceremonial or ritualistic Christian tradition generally involving some form of clergy.

According to one christian polling group if someone does not attend a church for 6 months they can be counted as unchurched. That makes for wide range of people who would be classified as unchurched. The reasons for not attending Church can be very broad and unrelated.

There are people who claim to be "unchurched" who are seeking to deconstruct the modern "organized church" model which they find unsatisfactory while at the same time seeking ways of establishing genuine church community centered around a faith in Christ and His Way. Many of the people labeled as the unchurched have made a conscious decision to go about things a different way than the paths and practices offered by the Modern Churches of today.

These unchurched people have often attempted to adapt themselves into a paradigm presented by variety of modern church communities with neither satisfaction nor success. They are often seeking an intimate group environment through which they might grow and thrive. Their attempts to conform to the different Church practices often fail. But the question naturally arises as to the reason for this failure to conform or fit into these church paradigms.

There is also another question too often neglected by the modern Christian. Does the modern Church conform to the original intent of the early Church community?

Is the problem with the Church or is it with the we see as the Modern Church?

What was the Church meant to be?

Abraham, Moses, John the Baptist and Jesus and the early Church advocated a Daily ministration for the needy. Jesus called out His ekklesia. The Church as we say today was institutionalized by Christ, Institutionalized means "established in practice or custom." Jesus spent years training His disciples which means "students" to be the ministers of His kingdom at hand, His government of God, which He took from those who were not bearing fruit and appointed to His "little flock". The problem today is most Churches are descended from the institutional Church of Constantine which was "established in practice or custom" in a different way. Constantine funded his new Church with tax money which provided for the poor. The modern institutional Church does the same. While there are many people who "say they are Christians" and many who are charitable people most of the care of the needy among the Churched and unchurched alike is provided by the state who merely takes from your neighbor to provide those benefits. These "covetous practices and customs" are contrary to the teachings of the prophets and certainly Jesus, James, Paul the Apostle and Peter and the New Covenant.

The Church, or ekklesia meaning called out in Greek, was appointed by Christ who was not only the rightful king of Judea which was the Kingdom of God but also a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. While the church included numerous forms of fellowship, it was not a social club and certainly not merely a community.

The Church legally defined is "In its most general sense, the religious society founded and established by Jesus Christ, to receive, preserve, and propagate his doctrines and ordinances."

Since there are over 40 thousand denominations calling themselves a church many question may arise:

• What are the specific doctrines of Jesus Christ before the private interpretation of men.
• How should that Church society order itself?
• What is the mission directed by Christ for the Church?
• Should the Church exercise authority one over the other?

Before we can answer these question there are other questions and terms that could be addressed.

The Church is also defined as "A body or community of Christians, united under one form of government by the profession of one faith, and the observance of the same rituals and ceremonies."

A society is defined as "the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community often so that they are not destroyed by other societies or acts of nature."

A community is "a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common." The community of the Church may not be as geographically in the same place as it is spiritually based in the character or name of Christ rather than a mere location. Since the Kingdom of God is first within you the community of the Church may have "a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals" of Christ.

Does the society and community of the Church organize from the bottom up by the service of trustworthy leaders in a charitable society or top down through rulers who exercise authority through compacts?

Is The Way of the Church through charity or force?

Jesus was "another king" of a Society and Community that made it possible for the people to survive and thrive during the decline and fall of Rome.

Besides being at the center of a community and part of the Christian society, the Church, appointed by Jesus who was the Christ, Messiah and anointed King, was also a unique form of government that operated by what James would call the perfect law of liberty.

The early Church in its most general sense was a community of people that sought to follow The Way of Christ was the king of the kingdom of God at hand and appointed to His ministers to serve the people rather than rule over them like the governments of the other nations. We can only hope to conform to Christ by doing the will of the Father.

The unchurched have at least decided that there is something wrong with the Modern Church. The modern Church and the modern Christians who cling to it are often not doing things like the early Church according to the doctrines of Jesus nor the will of the Father who art in heaven. By simply being the unchurched, there is no reason to believe that they are actually going in or following The Way of Christ which was fundamentally different than the way of Rome.

It is not enough to turn from the wrong path but we need to also seek the path of righteousness of God. It is up to every soul to seek that kingdom and to strive to know what the righteousness of God actually looks like.

Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God

Another important question might be, "What is worship?", or "What is religious worship?", or "What is "religion?", since the definitions of these words have changed over the years. Today "worship" has been defined as "reverent honor and homage paid to God", while "worship service" has been defined as "to show profound religious devotion and respect to; adore or venerate (God or any person or thing considered divine)".

But paying homage to God and Jesus is not just saying that you love him or praising him with your lips. If we examine the Bible we see Jesus saying in Luke 6:46, "And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" and in Exodus 20:5 we see, "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;".

This reference to bowing down is a form of or at least a part of the idea of worship in the sense of homage or adoration, but worship also includes actual serving.

This reference to actual service to God in the form of services performed by people strengthening others seems to be at the core of Christ's teachings and His purposes as we see in Luke 22:27 "For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth." and in John 12:26 "If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour."

In John 12:26 we see this reference to actual service beyond mere ritual or ceremony of the Modern Church. And again in Luke 12:37 "Blessed [are] those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them."

There was a church appointed by Christ that "continued daily with one accord in the temple, dividing bread from house to house so that the people were able to eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart". This distribution of bread and provisions by the ministers of the Church, trained and appointed by Christ, was different from that free bread distributed by Rome. It was the product of faith, hope and charity through that perfect law of liberty of James, and it was not merely the distribution of a ritualized wafer of bread. It was a form of social welfare through the practice of Pure Religion which consisted of the community of Christians engaged in the Eucharist of Christ. It was the result of the true love of one another in action that out-performed the government welfare of Rome and the Corban of Judea, and it was at the core of the Christian conflict.

What is the whole truth?

Christianity was never just a feeling nor a fancy. Christians had changed their thinking about the Corban of the Pharisees and Rome, and they were diligently seeking the Kingdom of God and the righteousness of God through mutual sacrifice and a daily ministration of charity.

Being "Unchurched" because the Modern Church is falling short or even in apostasy is simply not enough. We must strive to be conformed to Christ and The Way of His appointed Church.

We were warned of false Christs and prophets Which would include false pastors and churches deceiving many except by the grace of God.

• Patrick Henry said "Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it."

Are some of the unchurched those who sense that deception, see the hypocrisy and apostasy of the modern Church?

Are they willing to go deeper and see the whole truth and provide for it?

Many will imagine themselves saved in the Church and out but they are actually workers of iniquity.

And we were told in Matthew 5:48 "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."

But to be perfected in Christ we must except the whole gospel and be of one mind which will require repentance.

God wishes to open our eyes so that we may see that whole truth of His Kingdom of God.

We must continue to act with love concerning those things we see so that God may continue to remove the scales from our eyes and give us the sight and insight to see the truth of the Christian conflict with the covetous practices of the Corban of the Imperial Cult of Rome.

We must cleanse ourselves of the covetous practices that have become acceptable in the Modern Church by walking in all The Ways of Christ and setting the table of His Daily ministration in Pure Religion.

Told from the beginning

• We were told from the beginning that the slothful shall be under tribute and that through "covetous practices" we would be made "merchandise" and would curse our children as a 'surety' for debt in a snare, being entangled in a yoke of bondage under the taxation of the world.
• There are few more covetous practices than socialism and the world has been becoming more and more socialist every year. The modern Christian and their Churches are in conflict with Christ and His Church because they are biting one another, serving the Fathers of the earth, and praying to the Benefactors who are exercising authority over one another.
• Christ commanded we turn away from the covetous practices of the world to a daily ministration of sacrifice through faith, hope, and charity like the early Church rather than the ways of force, fear, and fealty of the world of Cain, Nimrod, Pharaoh, the Pharisees, and Caesar.
• The modern Christian has pursued the same Corban of social welfare which made the word of God to none effect like the Pharisees did. Since they have abandoned The Way of the early Church for the wages of unrighteousness becoming workers of iniquity they need to be subject to tribute.

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